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Americans are facing an interesting dilemma that has never
been such an issue as it is today--no one knows what to eat!
The US faces an epidemic of degenerative diseases, so the
health seeker just wants to know the answer to a simple,
basic question. “What food should I eat to be healthy?”
However, this is not an easy question to answer--at least not
in today’s technologically advanced world. When taking
into account the plethora of fad diets, nutritional science,
and varying opinions by doctors and “health experts” that
change day to day--it is no wonder why “what should I eat”
is a problem of such epic proportions.
Tuning in to the latest health revolution can cause a whirl
wind of confusion that the health seeker is not likely to sort out.
The answer of what to eat is actually simple--eat whole foods.
What exactly are whole foods?
Whole foods are foods exactly as they are found in nature.
They are intact, unprocessed, and come from the ground, a
plant, an animal, or the sea. They do not come in packages,
they do not have nutritional statistics on their label, and they
do not contain additives of any kind such as sweeteners,
preservatives, synthetic vitamins, or minerals, etc.
Another way to think of whole foods is to think about what
animals eat--not domesticated animals that eat processed animal
scrapes, but animals out in the plains, jungles, oceans, and deserts.
They eat plants and animals such as leaves, roots, fruits, berries,
nuts, seeds, honey, and of other animals. Sure, they are
opportunistic and will eat other foods that are offered.
Food can be scare sometimes and it is best to eat what one can
get, but without human interference, animals eat what nature
provides. There are no potato chip trees or cake vines in the
wild--nor are there pecan trees with added sugar or cows
that give milk with “extra vitamin D.” Our ancestral hunters
and gatherers did the same. They lived on fruits, nuts,
seeds, plants, and other animals. They ate abundantly
from the ocean. All of their foods were whole
and unprocessed. So why is this important?
Science has created everything that we have in our society today.
Just because animals and primitive man did not eat processed foods
does not mean they are harmful, does it? But if modern human health
is compared to that of a hunter's health--it can quickly be seen that
these foods are definitely linked to degenerative disease.
Dr. Weston Price traveled around the world studying various
cultures that still ate their traditional diet.
What he found is that cultures eating their traditional diets had few
cases of degenerative disease. Furthermore, almost all of them had
perfectly formed dental arches and never lost their wisdom teeth.
Bodies were lean, strong, and able to perform
manual labor into their old age.
For more information on this topic,
please visit the Price-Pottenger Foundation.
Now of course, much of this is because their lifestyles were very
different than the average American, but in cultures that abandoned
their traditional diet in favor of a modern diet of processed foods--the
people quickly became ill, they developed cavities, and
their dental arches did not form correctly.
In cultures where they reverted back to their traditional
diet, their health was restored because man has lived with
and adapted to whole foods for thousands or millions of years.
Man doesn’t live in a vacuum. He is intimately connected
with all life around him. He is a part of the
environment and not separate from it.
Man's body is adapted to have a certain amount of fiber
to push out waste material. He needs a certain amount
of Vitamin C to keep his veins and capillaries strong.
The fats and proteins in whole foods are shaped
a certain molecular way and that is the
shape his body recognizes.
Today’s trans fats are a different molecular shape and his
body does not have the equipment to metabolize it. His body is
adapted assimilating the carbohydrates found in whole foods,
and the fiber prevents carbohydrates from flooding his
system and spiking his blood sugar.
Concentrated sugars and foods lacking fiber raise his blood sugar
to dangerously high levels. The basic point is man has adapted
to over thousands or millions of years to eating whole foods.
It takes a long time to adapt from an evolutional standpoint.
Processed foods were introduced in the last couple of
centuries, not nearly enough time for man’s
body to adapt to the new foods.
In order to achieve optimal health, consider eating
whole foods and eat lots of them. Avoid processed foods.
The question about how to get healthy is as easy as that.
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